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DR. MARJORIE A. ROTH Nazareth College of Rochester, Department of Music Full Professor (2012) Music History and Studio Flute Honors Program Director 15 Eagle Rock Drive, Rochester, NY 14609 Home telephone: (585) 454-7759; Office telephone: (585) 389-2686 email: [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D Musicology: University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY (2005) Dissertation: “The Voice of Prophecy: Orlando di Lasso’s Sibyls and Italian Humanism” Primary Advisor: Dr. Kerala Snyder Dissertation committee: Dr. Patrick Macey, Dr. Massimo Ossi, Dr. Daniel Zager Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance & Literature: University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music (1998) Master of Arts in Musicology: University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music (1990) Master of Music in Performance & Literature: University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music (1986) Bachelor of Arts in Music: University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin (1981) PUBLICATION & RESEARCH Publications: “Music as a Liberal Art: Teaching Music to Non-Majors”, in James Davis (ed.), The Music History Classroom, New York: Routledge, 2013, 141-154. “Opportunity Lost: Christian Prophecy, Musical Magic, and the Road Not Taken in Counter-Reformation Rome”, Proceedings for conference on Early Modern Rome: 1341-1667, sponsored by the American Association of College & University Programs in Italy & the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, May 13-15, 2010, Rome, Italy. Rome: EDISAI, 2011, 156-175. “The Magic in the Music: Sixteenth-Century Chromaticism in Context”, Proceedings for 11th International Congress on Musical Signification, sponsored by the Krakow Academy of Music, September 27 - October 2, Krakow Poland. Krakow: Krakow Academy of Music, 2011, vol. 2, 156-167. “Prophecy, Harmony, and the Alchemical Transformation of the Soul: The Secret of Lasso’s Chromatic Sibyls”, in Laurence Wuidar, ed., Music and Esotericism, Leiden: Brill (ARIES Esotericism Book Series, Wouter Hanegraaff, general editor), May 2010, 45-76. Page 1! “The ‘Why’ of Music: Variations on a Cosmic Theme”, in Mary Natvig, ed., Teaching Music History, Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press 2002, 77-94. “An Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Flute Techniques”, The Flutist Quarterly 12/3 (Summer, 1987), 63-67. Ongoing Research: “Theology and Theatre in the Poems of Orlando di Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum” (translation of poems by Dr. Amerigo Fabbri, Yale University; Music historical/critical analysis of poems and music, Dr. Marjorie Roth, Nazareth College). Revision completed during sabbatical Spring 2017, awaiting final proofs from editor. Publication in online Festschrift for Kerala Snyder expected in Fall 2017. Dr. Joel Speerstra, editor, Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Göteborg, Sweden. “Early Music Analysis and the Extraordinary Case of Orlando di Lasso’s Carmina Chromatico”, working title of planned analytical monograph with literature review on the Prologue of Orlando di Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum (update and revision of 2004 conference paper “A Musical Analysis of Orlando di Lasso’s Carmina Chromatico”. Literature review updated and revisions begun during sabbatical, Spring 2017. CONFERENCE PAPERS READ “The Tarantella in the Context of Western Esotericism”, plenary paper scheduled for a Symposium on Western Esoteric Traditions, Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Center, Paradise Island, Bahamas, April 24 - 27, 2018. “Fire & Ice, Sea & Sky: Northern Music as a Mirror of Nature”, plenary paper for An Esoteric Quest for the Mysteries of the North, conference sponsored by the New York Open Center. Hellnar, Iceland, August 24 - 29, 2016. “Harmonies Heard & Unheard: Boethius, Brown, and the Music of the Spheres,” paper read at the first annual Spirit Art Symposium, Lily Dale Assembly, Cassadaga NY, July 28, 2015. “Living Life Harmonically: Harmony & Humility as a Model for Transcendence in Higher Education”, paper read at Symposium on the Humanities of the Transcendent and the Future of Higher Education, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Esotericism. Athens, Greece, June 18 - 22, 2015. “The Language of Love and Longing: Troubadour Poetry and Song in Medieval Languedoc”, plenary paper for An Esoteric Quest in the South of France: Troubadours, Cathars, Templars, & the Grail in Medieval Languedoc, conference sponsored by the New York Open Center. Carcassonne, France, June 4 - 9, 2015. “Once Bitten-Forever Re-bitten: The Tarantella as Music, Magic, and Medicine in Magna Graecia (and Today)”, paper read at conference on Ancient, Arabic, and Medieval Sicily, Siracusa, Sicily June 13 - 18, 2013. “From Cave to Cathedral: The Legacy of Greek Oracles in Magna Graecia and Beyond” (co- presenter, Dr. Leonard George, Capilano University, Vancouver, BC). Paper read atconference on Ancient, Arabic, and Medieval Sicily, Siracusa, Sicily June 13 - 18, 2013. Page 2! “Sibylline Prophecy as Sounding Salvation: New Light on Orlando di Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum”, paper read at conference on Music and Theology in the European Reformations, sponsored by the Huis van de Polyfonie, KU Leuven/Alamire Foundation, 19-21 September, 2012, Leuven, Belgium. “The Divine Women of Alexandria: Cleopatra and Hypatia”, plenary paper for An Esoteric Quest for Ancient Alexandria, conference sponsored by the Alexandria-Mediterranean Research Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the New York Open Center. Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, June 8 – 21, 2012. “Eros, Saturn, & Music History Pedagogy”, paper read as “Guest Master Teacher, 2010”, American Musicological Society Committee on Career-related Issues, joint National meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, November 4-7, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2010. “The Song of the Prophets: A Musical Model for Lasso’s Carmina Chromatico”, American Musicological Society, joint National meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, November 4-7, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2010. “The Magic in the Music: Chromaticism in Context”, International Congress on Musical Signification, sponsored by the Krakow Academy of Music, Krakow, Poland, September 27 - October 2, 2010. Also served as Early Music session chairperson. “Opportunity Lost: Christian Prophecy, Musical Magic, and The Road Not Taken in Counter-Reformation Rome,” paper read at conference on Early Modern Rome: 1341-1667, sponsored by the American Association of College and University Programs in Rome & the Istituto Medievo, Rome, Italy, May 12-15, 2010. “The Ancient Oracles Revived: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in 19th- Century Upstate New York”, paper read for An Esoteric Quest for Inner America, conference sponsored by the New York Open Center. Women’s Rights National Historic Park, Seneca Falls NY, August 29, 2009. “Prophecy, Harmony, and the Western Esoteric Tradition: The Secret of Lasso’s Chromatic Sibyls”, paper read at international interdisciplinary conference, Music & Esotericism: Art and Science of Sounds Facing the Occult Knowledge, sponsored by the Academia Belgica, Rome, Italy, April 14-18, 2008. “The Voice of Prophecy: Lasso’s Sibyls and Italian Humanism”, National meeting of the American Musicological Society, Washington, D. C., October 27-30, 2005. “A Musical Analysis of Orlando di Lasso’s Carmina Chromatico”, New York-St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 2-4, 2004. “Chromaticism in Context: A New View of Orlando di Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum”, New York-St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Hamilton, Ontario, April 25-27, 2003. Page 3! CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, PUBLISHED REVIEWS & PREVIEWS Presentations: “Dancing the Tarantella!” Workshop scheduled for a Symposium on Western Esoteric Traditions, Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Center, Paradise Island, Bahamas, April 24 - 27, 2018. “Music as Neoplatonic Sympathetic Magic”, workshop scheduled for a Symposium on Western Esoteric Traditions, Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Center, Paradise Island, Bahamas, April 24 - 27, 2018. “Troubadour Poetry & Song”. Presentation for Occitania Revisited, New York Open Center, New York City, October 11 2015. “Teaching Without Technology”, panel discussion participant, Committee on Career-Related Issues “Master Teacher Roundtable III”, National meeting of the American Musicological Society, November 12 -15, 2015. “Beginning in Honors”, session presentation, National Collegiate Honors Council, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2013. Presentation on the recently revised Honors Program curriculum at NAZ. “Studying Music as A Liberal Art: Philosophical and Institutional Musings on a Cosmic Theme”. Paper read at panel presentation of the AMS and SMT Pedagogy Study Group Sessions, National joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, New Orleans, November 2, 2013. “Music History, Music Theory, and World Music: Reflections on “‘Interdisciplinary' Music Pedagogy”, AMS Pedagogy Study Group panel, joint national meeting of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Music Theory, and the Society for Ethnomusicology, New Orleans, November 1- 4, 2012. “Whither the Musicologist?: Teaching Music History in the 21st Century”, AMS Pedagogy Study Group panel, National meeting of the American Musicological Society, Quebec City, November 1- 4, 2007. “A Musical Mystery of the Renaissance Explored”, presentation for New York Open Center conference, An Esoteric Quest in Central Europe: From Renaissance Bohemia to Goethe’s
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